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Safeway (also referred to as Canada Safeway) is a Canadian supermarket chain that operates 135 full-service locations, mostly in the country's Western provinces.It was established in 1929 as a subsidiary of the American Safeway chain before being sold in 2013 to Sobeys, a division of the conglomerate Empire Company and Canada's second-largest supermarket chain. [1]
Sobeys Inc. [4] is a national supermarket chain in Canada with over 1,500 stores operating under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than C$25.1 billion [3] in the fiscal 2019 operating year.
Sobeys; Thrifty Foods; Pete's Frootique; Longo's (Sobeys has purchased 51% of Longo's, with an option to buy the remaining shares within the next 10 years) Loblaw Companies operates Axep; Bloor Street Market; Dominion; Les Entrepôts Presto; Extra Foods; Fortinos; Freshmart; L'Intermarché; Loblaws / Loblaw GreatFood / Loblaws CityMarket; Lucky ...
Acquired by Sobeys as part of its purchase of the Oshawa Group Ltd., it now operates primarily in Quebec. The IGA operations in Atlantic Canada were sold to Loblaw Companies Limited (except for Edmundston , Shediac and Dieppe which runs as IGA-Co-op, previously acquired by Sobeys New Brunswick ) and were restructured under its existing brands.
FreshCo Ltd. is a Canadian chain of discount supermarkets owned by Sobeys. [2] It was launched in March 2010. [3] As of September 2024, there were over 125 FreshCo stores. In December 2017, Sobeys Inc. announced plans to re-brand up to 64 stores in western Canada currently under the Safeway and Sobeys names into the FreshCo banner.
OFG later opened four stores in Saskatchewan and three stores in Winnipeg, Manitoba during 2016. Additionally, in 2017 a full-size store was opened in Whitehorse, Yukon . In February 2014, it was announced that Overwaitea would purchase 15 stores from Sobeys , three in Alberta and twelve in British Columbia.
The Save-On-Foods brand was launched in British Columbia in 1982 by Overwaitea Foods, which had been founded in 1915 and was later purchased by Jimmy Pattison in 1968. Most Overwaitea branded stores were gradually converted to Save-On-Foods stores beginning in the 1980s, with the last two remaining Overwaitea stores switching in 2018.
Sobeys is the exclusive supplier to the chain. Many stores operate from 6am-midnight; however, there are some 24-hour locations in larger urban centres. The Needs chain has installed gasoline stations at some locations using either the Ultramar Limited , Shell or Sobeys Fast Fuels brands.